Community Coordinator
The Community Coordinator is a service position focused on increasing participation and connections within Hackrva
Community Coordinator
- Robert E Kramer
- Expected term: May - August 2015
- Time commitment: 2 - 5 hrs / week
- "My primary purpose is to increase our feeling of connection to Hackrva and to each other. I believe by collaborating together we can all get more out of our Hackrva experience."
Current Challenges (May 2015)
- A few members do the vast majority of administrative work and general maintenance of the facilities
- Safety and equipment training needs to be standardized, easily available to all members, and followed.
- It typically takes a while for members to feel comfortable and start making projects
Goals
- Increase member service participation.
- The long term health of the organization requires the work of maintaining Hackrva be distributed.
- We've tried different volunteer strategies. I hope to make incremental improvement.
- Provide a framework for future development and improvement
- Find some useful metrics to gauge how effective policies are.
- Document the experience so that the role of Community Coordinator is defined and the next person can easily step in and continue progressing
Initial Strategy
- Gather data and find a couple simple metrics to measure effectiveness
- implement a plan improve volunteer participation
- Use a shared purpose, opportunities to be useful, and play to increase connection
- Create a training record program and find someone who would like to take on a Member Training service position
- Create an avenue for feedback and events designed to reduce fear around beginning to make things